Think about technical novelty in relation to the arts. Naimark’s opposition (“First/Last Word Art”) and the Gartner Hype Cycle are two different attempts to understand how culture accomodates new technologies. Each delinates a spectrum from the well-understood to the utterly novel.

In a blog post of about 150-200 words,

Discuss the relationship of the GHC and FW/LW in greater detail.

Where do you locate your interests along these spectra?

Why do you think Schulze prefers to work in the “Trough of Disillusionment”?

Label your blog post with the category, Assignment-01-4

5. Your first Looking Outwards Assignment.

After foraging widely (consider this list of potential starting points), select 3 projects in the broadly-scoped field(s) of computational new-media arts and/or design. (Note: all projects should somehow have involved/required the creation of custom software.) In a blog post,

Discuss one project that you admire profoundly (why?),

one project that surprised you (why?),

and one project that could have been great, but disappointed you (why?).